Post #31631 by christiki295 on Sat, Apr 26, 2003 12:06 PM

The Tiki Road Trip is a tremendous tome.

It is very well researched and loving homage is paid to those Tiki bars unfortunately no longer with us.

I can only imagine what an unparalled thrill it would have been to have visited even half of those bars.

I am not bold enough to list an "omission," but merely to add a suggestion for what I hope will be annual updates:

Point Moorea
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Wilshire & Figueroa,
Downtown Los Angeles

Point Moorea is a Neo-tiki bar.
Tipsy factor: 1 or 2

There is a neon tiki outside,
a tiki in the doorway and the dance floor back drop consists of numerous smalller tikis, although not necessarily of South Pacific origin.

It calls itself a full service tiki bar and, true to its name, offers a Martini bar, has a full menu, has beautiful red, wing-back chairs, shows the Laker game on a theater-sized screen which rolls up for a dance floor and hosts salsa and rave dance clubs on the weekend
(low cover, unlike Venus-Taboo Cove).

While it is not a Tiki mecca like
Trader Vics or a classic Tiki bar like Tiki Ti or Purple Orchid, I am glad (and relieved) that developers have not entirely abandoned the Tiki manna
(like Papyrus at the Luxor).

I recommend Point Moorea for a very fun time, particularly if one works downtown or wants to stop for a drink after seeing the Lakers play at Staples Center.